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- 1 Creepy Game: I Can Rewind After I Die 诡异游戏：我可以死亡回档 [Death Rewind] + [ruthless] + [no saintly do-gooder] + [suspense] + [bizarre game] After accidentally transmigrating back to the time of his high school graduation, Zheng Dong finds himself in a bizarre looping world, where a deadly game among his classmates is filled with bloodshed, schemes, and ruthless cruelty. Zheng Dong has the ability to rewind after death, like in a single-player game. Whenever he makes the wrong choice, he kills himself and rewinds, refusing to leave himself with regrets 212Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 I Survive by Reloading 我靠回档存活 [Infinite Flow + Livestream Survival + Rewind + Misguided Reverence + No CP] Lin Zhou is hit by a car and killed while saving someone. He transmigrates to a world invaded by an escape game, discovers he can rewind time, and manages to survive to the end. Everyone takes him for a top-tier powerhouse. At first: “He’s so scared he can’t even move? A rookie’s a rookie. Let’s go.” “A rookie’s a rookie.” Later: “I’m raising the banner for the great Lin Zhou! Now that’s what you call a god-tier play!” 173Reads—Score103Shelves
- 3 After Rewinding My Death, I Played the Prophet in the Instance 死亡回档后，我在副本扮演先知 [Secret identities + Infinite Flow + suspense + System] The link to the main world vanished, and the world collapsed overnight. The many monsters imprisoned there seized the chance to swarm out, bringing on the apocalypse. Death was unavoidable. Thanks to the System's power, Tao Yijin wakes up again inside an instance and has no choice but to struggle to survive. A snowy-night villa hides more than one shadow. The duke's ball ends amid flames and flashing blades, yet someone still harbors ulteri 30Reads—Score103Shelves
- 4 Horror Game? If I Can't Speedrun It in Three Minutes, It's a Bad Deal 惊悚游戏？三分钟速通不了算炸单 [Infinite-flow + death loopbacks + survival livestream + misunderstandings that make people think he’s a mastermind + no romance] [Everyone uses their wits (or at least I’ll try)] [The story will feature lots of livestream comments] Blue Star, Longguo. A world invaded by horror games. All of humanity lives under the shadow of being chosen at any moment to enter and take part in a game. You can watch the chosen struggle, flee for their lives, and claw out a way to survive when all hope seems lost 426Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 5 Death Rewind: The Retro Handheld That Saves Your Lives! 死亡回档：复古掌机能存档轮回！ [Handmade All the Way] [Death Rewind] [References and Memes] [Chinese Dreamcore] [Time Travel] [Mild Horror] In his parents' room, Lin Yu finds a knockoff game console bearing the words "Little Turtle." Death! Save! Loop! Amnesia! With every save-and-reload cycle, Lin Yu gains the abilities of the game cartridges, while accidentally getting drawn into an even deeper mystery. All he has is the knockoff console marked "Little Turtle" and a digital camera that can't even take a clear picture. This 29Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 Time-Loop Escape: You Got It Wrong, I'm Really Not a God 回档逃亡：误会了，我真不是神啊 [Infinite Flow + Death Rewinds + Livestreaming + Partial Misinterpretation + Death] [Contains lots of chat comments] By his seventh death, Lin Shen had grown numb... Meanwhile, in the real world's livestream chat, viewers were going wild. “What the hell is going on with this guy? He just got into the dungeon and went to sleep?” “Come on, guys, let's go watch my bro take on the dungeon!” But when Lin Shen kept rewinding time and cleared the dungeon on his third, fourth, and fifth attempts, the co 752Reads6.1Score101Shelves
- 7 Thriller Game: I Became a Legend with the Help of Save Scumming 惊悚游戏：我靠回档被观众封神 [Infinite Flow + Death Regression + Live Survival + Partial Delusions + No Romance] Jiang Xia accidentally transmigrated into a world invaded by survival games. He even discovered that he had the ability to rewind time upon death, and used it to escape danger again and again. After clearing an instance thanks to his regression ability, he was mistaken by people in the real world for a top-tier expert! “I never would have guessed that was how you cleared it. How did Jiang Xia figure it out?” “Tha 2.9kReads8.1Score281Shelves
- 8 Death Rewind: Welcome to the Observer's Cage 死亡回档：欢迎来到观测者牢笼 Don’t read this. It’s badly written, and it’s been discontinued. The author was just going crazy. Don’t read it!!! [Infinite Flow + Live Streaming + Death Regression + Pain Aversion + No Female Lead + No Romance + Later Audience Misinterpretations] [Feel free to skip the beginner dungeon. I don’t want to write a plot where a newcomer makes a scene and insists on going out to stir up trouble. Start at the Deep-Sea Laboratory.] Because his sense of pain is far more acute than an ordinary person’s 961Reads—Score114Shelves
- 9 Save-Scumming for Survival: Please Stop Reading So Much into Everything 回档求生：求求你们别再脑补了 [Infinite Flow + Death Rewinds + Livestream Misinterpretations + Everyone's Wild Speculation + Hilarious Power Fantasy] Lu Fan transmigrated into [The Endgame] and discovered that he could save his progress. He only wanted to keep his head down and survive, but his teammates and viewers were all wild speculators, and they forced him onto a pedestal! He was so scared that he collapsed on the ground and pretended to be dead. Teammate: “Oh my god! He used a shifted center of gravity to brake at th 2.6kReads6.5Score335Shelves
- 10 The World Rewinds: Save Earth in 36 Hours 世界回档，36小时拯救地球 Zheng Jiu died when a falling electric fan struck him during a club rehearsal, then was reborn. Thinking it was a precognitive dream, he dodged the fan and made it through the day unscathed. The next night, during the school’s apocalypse-themed performance, at 11:59 p.m., a meteorite struck Earth. He was reborn again. At last, he understood: This wasn’t precognition. It was a death-triggered time rewind. It wasn’t an accident. It was the precise annihilation of the world! He had only 36 hours le 705Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 Rewind and Cultivate Immortality: From the Start, I Have a Diary That Lies 回档修仙：开局一本会说谎的日记 [Regression + No Harem + No Heroine + No Clichés + No System + Not Invincible, Read at Your Own Risk] “Your name is Bai Chen. By the time you read this, you will have lost all your memories of this place.” “From now on, believe every word in this diary. That’s the only way to avoid dying.” Bai Chen has suffered from memory loss since childhood. After transmigrating to the Great Jing Dynasty, he obtains a diary that can record the past and predict the future. The first time, he is poisone —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 I Became a God Through Death Rewinds 我靠死亡回档封神了 [Civilization Ascension + Death Rewind + No Romance + A Touch of Corruption] [The heroine isn't overpowered; she grows stronger over time] [The protagonist forms a team] [For detailed content warnings, see the author's note in Chapter One] [When a higher-dimensional civilization turns Blue Star into an exam ground, she uses millions of deaths as her blade to carve out a perfect path to survival for humanity] The not-so-serious blurb: “Uh… who? Who’s the big shot? Me? “Mm, yeah… Can you hear me? 1.7kReads8.7Score276Shelves
- 13 Death Rewind: An Alien Polishes My Shoes! 死亡回档，外星人给我擦皮鞋！ [Death Rewind + Apocalypse + Alien Invasion + Fourth Calamity + NPC Awakening + Wild Imagination] After surviving a plane crash, office worker Chen Xuanqing gains the ability to rewind time upon death. Just as he is dreaming of getting rich and having beautiful women by his side, ready to use his power to reach the pinnacle of life, a blinding white light pierces the clouds, and countless alien lifeforms descend upon the world! Humanity is wiped out in an instant! After rewinding time again 11Reads6.6Score114Shelves
- 14 Infinite Rewinds: They All Think I'm a Prophet 无限回档：他们都以为我是预言家 The rating has only just been posted. It’ll go up later. [Strong Female Lead] [No Romance] [Horror] [Live Streaming] [Time Rewind] [Fake Prophet] [Destiny] A horror game descends upon Earth, turning the entire world into an inferno. Yi Yubai is unlucky enough to be chosen for the game. Unluckier still, thanks to a System allocation error, she dies right from the start. But fortunately, she gains an SSS-rank ability: Infinite Rewind. From then on, she becomes the mysterious [Prophet] in everyone’ 11.7kReads8.4Score2kShelves
- 15 They Called Me a God After I Tried to Get Myself Killed 我作死后，他们却叫我大神 [Infinite flow + no CP + livestream + everyone misinterprets everything] Bai Qi was selected for a death game, only to discover that the boss of the beginner instance was his best friend. His best friend told him that if you die in the death game, you can become an NPC and mess with the players. Well, then, time to elbow the concrete floor! But why is there a victory beam underneath me??? Every time Bai Qi tries to get himself killed so he can join his best friend, his antics accidentally turn i 6.6kReads8.7Score646Shelves
- 16 Death Rewind: I’m Really Not a Big Shot 死亡回档：我真不是大佬啊 [Rules-based horror + semi-misinterpretation comedy + death rewind + infinite-flow + no romance + survival horror + lots of bullet comments + urban supernatural powers + instances + suspense] Xie Yi died for reasons unknown and transmigrated to Blue Star, a world much like Earth. Blue Star had long since been overrun by supernatural horrors. When he transmigrated, he entered the body of a person with the same name who had been selected by a horror after falling into a pit on the way to buy medic 9.3kReads8.6Score764Shelves
- 17 Save-Scumming Survival: I’m Really Not Some Big Shot 回档求生：我真不是大神啊 [Livestream] [death resets] [no romance] When the “Salvation Game” becomes humanity's last hope! While every player struggles to survive, Chen Fan commands the power of “reset” from the start, turning death into a stairway to godhood! When the whole world goes wild over his one-minute dungeon clears, they don't know that behind that one minute lies a path paved with six of Chen Fan's lives. “The dungeons you see as hell are nothing more than a backyard where I save my home.” “One day, I will 525Reads6.9Score103Shelves
- 18 Reborn: In This Life, I Protected the Town First 重生：这一世，我先守住了镇子 In his previous life, Bai Yi had lived a peaceful and uneventful life, but the entire town was massacred. Reborn one hour before the crisis erupted, he awakened the Rebirth System. This time, he would face an army of a thousand with fewer than two hundred village militiamen. When the enemy commander saw the hills outside the town covered in military banners, he was utterly dumbfounded. Standing on the low wall, Bai Yi tightened his grip on his sword. “This time, it’s your turn.” He entered a wor 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 Tomb Raiding: I Told You, I’m Just an Ordinary Temp 盗墓：都说了我只是个普通临时工 [New book ratings are in, and they’ll rise later] [Everyone enters a tomb-raiding world + death rewind + livestream + mistaken-identity antics + no romance, female-led] [Content warning: There’s a “everyone loves her” storyline, with unrequited crushes from both men and women! See the beginning of Chapter One for all content warnings!] After overworked office drone Zhang Kaiyan dropped dead, she opened her eyes to find she hadn’t been turned into a loot box. The good news was that she had transm 1.8kReads8.5Score259Shelves
- 20 Are You Still Willing to Save the World Today? 今天的你，还愿意拯救世界吗？ [The rating has just been released and will gradually rise] [Death regression] [Cthulhu] [Brand-new system] [Descent and ascent] [Sanity points] My name is Jiang Lin. I played a virtual game called Future. At first, I thought it was just an incredibly realistic game. Just as I was about to quit... I realized this damn game had no exit button!! Was I trapped in the game? What was even more despairing was... I couldn’t die. I could only experience this bizarre world over and over again. A black su 102.6kReads8.0Score25.7kShelves
- 21 Infinite Regress: The Anomaly Begs Me to Become an Evil God 无限回溯：异常求我成邪神 [Supernatural powers + anomalous containment + time + mild horror + light comedy + pseudoscience + no System (maybe?) + maybe no heroine + satisfying clever protagonist + escape] The good news: Zhong Zhaixing can rewind time indefinitely, so he has the advantage. The bad news: The endless rewinds never stop, and he’s trapped. Starlight University is attacked by countless anomalies. Being eaten by monsters? He can take it. Being killed by the rules? He accepts it. Being stabbed to death by a ps 49Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 EN You Slaughter Wraiths by the Dozen? But I'm a Save-Scumming Wraith! 你杀诡如麻？可我是回档诡异！ [Infinite flow + game + mild horror + no heroine + turn-based resets + instances + protagonist is a monster] Readers have left plenty of positive reviews. No undercover troublemakers, so give it a try. Beneath the veil of the “city,” Xu Kai stood amid a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood. His enemies fell one after another, their eyes filled with confusion as they died. His opponents weren’t especially strong. They were more like machines. Every turn, every gesture, was perfectly timed to de 2kReads6.5Score212Shelves
- 23 Murder Rules? Did You Know I Can Be Reborn After I Die 杀人规则？你可知我死后，能重生 (Also known as: Killing Rules? Did You Know I Can Be Reborn After I Die?) [Academy + Supernatural Powers + Killing Rules + Death Rewind (Reborn After Death)] Get killed, then return to the moment before your death. Amid the strange and uncanny, through rebirth after rebirth, Bai Jue feels like he is going insane. A blue moon no one can look up at, another version of himself in the world inside the mirror, a cute but insecure upperclasswoman, the campus beauty with double standards and an iron wi 530Reads8.3Score101Shelves
- 24 Fahai's Rewind and Xiao Qing the Magical Girl's Journey to the West 法海回档与魔法少女小青西游 [Multiple Worlds + Infinite Flow + Games + Magical Girls + Mystery + Reincarnation System] Feng Hai had hoped to cultivate the Dao and become an immortal, but the Vulgar Buddha Sect kidnapped him and made him a disciple of Master Poison Sac. Trapped in the “Fahai Reload” game, he was doomed to endless cycles of reincarnation. While out shopping, he was swallowed by the White Snake. He was awakened by Yang Yunxing, a dungeon breaker, and learned that the only way to return to reality was to culti —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 Death Rewind: Save the World in 48 Hours 死亡回档，48小时拯救世界 A car accident gave Wang Cong the ability to rewind time upon death! Just as he was getting ready to buy a lottery ticket and reach the pinnacle of life… The sky split open. Alien spaceships descended, and a flash of white light wiped out the world! Only two days remained. The countdown to extinction had begun. … “If I can rewind time by dying, can I save the world?” “You can, but you can't fill every hole the apocalypse leaves behind.” “Then if I bring along a group of comrades who've ri 115.7kReads8.6Score11.7kShelves
- 26 One Hundred Thousand Deaths: From Getting One-Shot to Conquering the Wasteland 死亡十万次，从被秒杀到横推废土 [High Martial Arts] [No Romance] [Death Rewind] [Ensemble Cast] [Tight Logic] (Some readers have been worried in the first few dozen chapters that the Trickster's Eye, this alien god, is up to no good, and have been scared off. Here's a clarification: don't worry, the logic is sound and there are no pitfalls. The twists come quickly, and there's no way the protagonist is a puppet. Absolutely impossible!!) The sun went dark, gray mist swallowed the world, and abyssal worms tore human civilization 4.2kReads9.1Score398Shelves
- 27 Infinite Rebirth: Conquering Another World from Scratch 无限重生：从零开始的异世界攻略 [Brain-Burning + Mind-Blowing Ideas + A Fresh New Genre + Wild and Unrestrained + Utterly Rebellious] Psionic ascension, mechanical ascension, genetic ascension: which is the strongest? Bah! Only kids have to choose. I want them all! What a disaster! Heaven gave Zhang Haoran the ability to reload infinitely, but who could have guessed that transmigrating would be set to hellish difficulty? Even worse, he had absolutely no control over his save points. Every reload was a new opportunity. His main 237Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 28 Espionage: 2,000 Deaths from the Start 谍战：开局死亡两千次 Xie Shu, male, formerly an Olympic shooting champion in the twenty-first century. One day, he kills himself and wakes up in 1940. Reason: Unknown. Identity: Unknown. Status: Being buried alive. Xie Shu: ...What a disastrous start! The good news: He gains the ability to rewind time whenever he dies. The bad news: He wakes up at a live burial site and has to die two thousand times before he escapes. While helping a passing guerrilla unit complete its mission, he somehow ends up as the illegitimat 40kReads9.3Score6kShelves
- 29 EN Infinite Rewinds: Everyone Thinks I'm a Big Shot 无限回档：所有人都以为我是大佬 [Adapted into a comic drama] [Audiobook narrated by a real person available] [Infinite Flow + Livestream Survival + Death Rewind + Half-Dihua] [No CP] [The story contains a lot of on-screen comment barrages] After Xu Xi died from overwork, he transmigrated to another world invaded by a survival game. He even discovered that he could rewind time after dying. By using this ability to escape danger time and again and successfully clear each instance, he unexpectedly became a top expert in the eyes 189.8kReads9.4Score21.5kShelves
- 30 Saving the World in 24 Hours 24小时拯救世界 What would you do if you had only 24 hours to save the world? After countless rebirths and resets, Zhu Shijiu has endured the unbearable pain of dying tens of thousands of times. With each endless loop, his will has teetered closer to collapse. He has tried everything to escape, but nothing has worked. Every time he dies, he returns to the day before that damned world is destroyed! All he can do is follow every thread and search for clues, using each death to uncover the truth. 24 hours to save 3.6kReads8.8Score372Shelves
- 31 Rule Horror: I Can Foresee Death 规则怪谈：我能预见死亡 [Original Scenarios + Foreknowledge of Death + Deduction + National Fortune + Live Broadcast + Suspense + Horror] Supernatural tales descend, and the bizarre invades. One person in each country will be chosen as the lucky contestant, entering countless Rule Horror worlds where all manner of horrors lurk. Clear the scenario, and your country will earn a brief respite! Fail, and the rules descend upon a city, bringing disaster and leaving countless people dead or grieving! This time, Su Li is chos 17kReads9.0Score1.7kShelves
- 32 Unlimited Simulations: I Grow Stronger Every Second 无限制模拟，我每秒都在变强 Also known as: Since it's all just simulation anyway, going completely crazy and absurd is only natural Ruthless and decisive, with 99% of the story devoted to simulations. Don't read if that's not your thing. After transmigrating, He Yu thought he could marry the pretty daughter of the man who had saved his life, have children, and live out an ordinary life. Then he awakened a simulator that could run through an entire lifetime in an instant. It could be activated without any conditions, and he 26kReads9.0Score2.5kShelves
- 33 Infinite Flow: I Become a God After Giving Up 无限流：摆烂后我封神了 No CP + System + mass misinterpretation Luo Yuejian has always thought of herself as plain and ordinary, with a touch of social anxiety and a poker face. Someone like her would be utterly unremarkable in a crowd and completely ignored by everyone. After dying under bizarre circumstances, she is forced into a survival game. She knows her own limits and realizes she has no chance of coming back to life in a terrifying survival game. As she agonizes over whether to fight with all she has or give 35.4kReads9.2Score2.7kShelves
- 34 Stop Running, There Are Monsters Everywhere Here 别跑了，这里到处是怪物 [Coming-of-Age Protagonist, Not a Wish-Fulfillment Story, Plot-Driven] On Lin Yi’s eighteenth birthday, his mother plunged a knife into his heart with her own hands. He thought he would die, but when he came to, Lin Yi discovered he was still alive. He was not only unharmed, but had even returned to the past. At first, Lin Yi thought it was all a hallucination. It was only when his mother picked up the knife on the table again that he finally realized the people sitting before him were not his p 19.9kReads8.9Score2.3kShelves
- 35 EN Cihang City 慈航市 At Cihang's grand arena, don't show up without a cheat. Chen Feng transmigrated to another world and discovered that the bosses here were unbelievably sneaky. “Let's go level up in the newbie village first.” “Ha! Got you, transmigrator.” “I'll be reborn and buy a lottery ticket.” “Ha! Got you, regressor.” “Fine, if you're going to play dirty, I don't need to pretend to be a gentleman either.” Chen Feng discovered that every time he died, he could refresh and get a new System. A System's power ha 1.1MReads9.2Score131.8kShelves
- 36 Eerie Revival: I Can Contact the Past 诡异复苏：我能联系过去 The Hungry Ghost Festival of 2025. A super red moon appeared, and as it lingered in the sky, the supernatural returned. Left Yang was shocked to discover that he could use his phone to contact himself in the past. In the stairwell, the Knock-at-the-Door Ghost killed anyone who opened the door. But someone discovered that it skipped the first floor and started knocking there. So Left Yang contacted his past self. [Please have your one-month-younger self rent an apartment on the first floor!] The 43.3kReads9.1Score4.9kShelves
- 37 EN Infinite Escape: From Cannon Fodder to Beautiful, Powerful, and Doomed 无限逃亡，炮灰爆改美强惨 [Signed for publication][Audiobook narrated by a real person now available] Two male leads + Infinite Flow + Misguided assumptions A good-for-nothing cannon-fodder, Xie De, gets a System dropped on him. He thinks he can finally embark on the path of a legendary hero and triumph all the way, but it turns out his System is a useless, abandoned piece of junk that can’t provide a thing. Shop? No. Rewards? No. Missions? No. Fine, Xie De decides to keep slacking off. But the System won’t have it. Sure 77.9kReads9.6Score10.3kShelves
- 38 Every Sect Wants to Kill Me, So I Just Reload After Death! 宗门都想噶我，我直接死亡回档！ [Transmigrated into a Book + Villainess + Death Rewinds Time + Eldritch Cultivation + Unhinged + Quirky Style] Lu Xiaojin transmigrated into a book, becoming the lovesick senior apprentice sister in a cultivation novel where everyone falls for the heroine. She kept fighting the heroine for men and ended up dying horribly. No problem. She wasn't stupid. She knew how the plot went, so she could avoid trouble, stay away from the men, and survive. But! Can someone tell her why her junior apprentice 24.8kReads9.2Score3.6kShelves
- 39 EN After a Thousand Simulations, I Have a Speedrun Strategy for Escape Games 模拟一千次，我有逃生游戏速通法 [Print edition on sale February 21 at 7 p.m. Please show it lots of support!] [Infinite-flow + fast-paced + funny + invincible protagonist + no female lead + no angst for the protagonist] [Across the four streets, east, south, west, and north, ask around and find out who’s the boss] [Don’t compare yourself to others. Just look at you: who do you think you are?] The White Tower descends, and the entire world enters death-instance mode. Zheng Xun, bound to an infinite simulation System and forced 214.6kReads9.6Score36kShelves
- 40 Strange Tales Livestream! 怪谈直播间！ Welcome to the Rules of the Strange. This is a battle of blood and fire, a test of wit and courage. The power of words cannot be resisted, and the eerie rules must not be broken. In a seemingly hopeless situation, find the one correct answer, break free of your constraints, and search for a way to survive. 173.8kReads9.7Score17.7kShelves
- 41 A Long Journey in Another World 异界旅途漫漫 [No System + Original Story + Ensemble Cast + No Brain-Dead Characters + Fast-Paced + Pure Romance] I’m dedicated to creating a different kind of world and bringing everyone a fresh new thrill, along with a more realistic experience! The rain fell without letup, day after gloomy day. Beneath the curtain of rain... Travelers from another world, I’d like you to finish this terrible game of chess for me. Anyone can be a chess piece, anyone can be sacrificed. All living beings are players in this ga 5.8kReads—Score334Shelves
- 42 EN The Horrors Are Hard to Kill? Sorry, I'm the Truly Immortal One 诡异难杀？抱歉，我才是真正不死 This book has been signed for publication, so enjoy it with confidence. [Death Regression + Foreknowledge of the Future + Kill the Saintly One First + Dark Tone + Supernatural Resurgence] After accidentally transmigrating to a world invaded by the supernatural, Fang Xiu awakens the ability to return from death, also known as turning back time. Whenever he dies, time rewinds to just before his death. In this perilous and uncanny world, he could have laid low, but instead he chooses to announce to 231.9kReads9.5Score28.4kShelves
